Book 6 is in progress

Greetings, readers! The last of the revised Books 1-3 is ready for the proofreader and I have started turning my efforts to writing Book 6.

The revised versions of Books 1-3 will go up in a few months. I’m waiting to release them all at the same time, and am also working on recording new audiobooks (in my specially-constructed cardboard-and-foam sound booth, made from a box for a screen door). They’ll have new covers and new paperbacks, in addition to a 80% new Book 1 and much more consistency and more fully realized characters in Books 2 and 3. I love the addition of Vortigern in Book 1 and am very happy to give Pendragon and Uther much better character definition in Books 2 and 3. 

Again, I want to thank you for your support and encouraging words, and simply for reading my work, which is really the main satisfaction for me.

So the saga is now progressing as I have begun writing Book 6, which will cover the first few years of King Arthur’s reign. If you’re familiar with Le Morte D’Arthur, this book will cover the rest of Chapter 1 after Arthur becomes king. 

There is SO much story to cover here! Whereas Books 4 and 5 were largely original works as there is little in the legend about these periods, in Book 6 we have a lot of events covered in the legend to get in there, so it’s back to adapting existing work and making it consistent and meaningful. This part is actually the oldest section of the story, first captured in Geoffery of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain in 1136, the first complete chronicle of King Arthur and his reign (P.S. It also contains the inspiration for King Lear). 

The other thing that occurred to me while writing yesterday is that Book 6 is where things start getting WEIRD. The first sections have a lot of battles, but in the second half we start entering that state so unique to the Arthurian legend in which we exist somewhere between reality and a dream, where ordinary things take on a symbolic tinge and mystical events become commonplace. The wonderful thing about this series for me is that every book presents a different writing challenge, and the intermingling of the everyday with the mystical is going to be among the challenges of Book 6.

Anyway, the book is in progress! No more looking back, just charging forward! Thank you for reading the series and your kind comments. Be well and take care.

Scott